Thomas Merton's Quote - The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themsel

Quote by Thomas Merton

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themsel

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. – Thomas Merton

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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. – Thomas Merton

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The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom. – Thomas Merton

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Every moment and every event of every mans life on earth plants something in his soul. – Thomas Merton

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What an infinity of bliss the possession of your love seemed to me — the future so full of passionate sweet life that my spirit shrank blinded from trying to explore it; I stopped content with the delicious sense of that moment alone. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

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If you wished to be loved, love. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here. – A.R. Rahman

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True love doesnt come to you it has to be inside you. – Julia Roberts

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